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Author:
Toptaş, Hasan Ali, author.
Title:
Shadowless / Hasan Ali Toptaş ; translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely and John Angliss.
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishingan imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
305 pages ; 23 cm
Subject:
Barbers--Fiction.
Reality--Fiction.
Communities--Fiction.
Turkish fiction.
Barbers.
Communities.
Reality.
Turkish fiction.
Fiction.
Other Authors:
Freely, Maureen, 1952- translator.
Angliss, John, translator.
Other Titles:
Golgesizler. English
Summary:
'I'm a barber,' he said. 'I come from afar. Across lands already forgotten...' In an Anatolian village forgotten both by God and the government, the muhtar has been elected leader for the sixteenth successive year. When he staggers to bed that night, drunk on raki and his own well-deserved success, the village is prosperous. But when he is woken by his wife the next evening he discovers that Nuri, the barber, has disappeared without a trace in the dead of night, and the community begins to fracture. In a nameless town far, far away, Nuri walks into a barbershop as if from a dream, not knowing how he has arrived. Try as he might, he cannot grasp the strands of his memory. The facts of his past life shift and evade him, and as other customers come and go, they too struggle to recall how they got there...
ISBN:
9781408850824
1408850826
OCLC:
(OCoLC)959880229
(OCoLC)985217107
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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